The UK’s Wine Trade Sports Club is looking for members to help raise money for charity while having fun, exercising, competing and networking.
The club, which can trace back its origins to the early 70s, performs a valuable role in fundraising for those in the wine trade who have fallen on hard times, as well as providing a good way to expand your contacts. New chairman of the WTSC – and director at Maisons, Marques & Domaines – Charles Taverner explained the benefits of joining the club during a conversation with db earlier this year. “It’s a social and networking club more than anything,” he said, adding that it had been a great way to increase his contact base in the wine trade, having joined the WTSC when he was in his 20s. It also offers sporting types in the wine trade a great way to play in a range of competitions around the UK, often in great venues, and includes a wide range of sports, from tennis, squash and cricket to football, rugby, sailing and golf, with plans to add padel to the list this year – and a cycling event each year in partnership with The Drinks Trust. There are also “socials” and quiz nights, according to Taverner, who wants to raise awareness for the club, in the hope that more people will join it, and that way increase the funds for the Wine Trade Sports Club Foundation, which supports charitable works in the trade. “The aim is
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